Cool industry, growing company! - Anonymous employee Universal Robots Employee Review

4.0
Feb 21, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The Universal Robots workplace is like our robots: cool and collaborative. We've got cool products, a collaborative team and we're leading our market segment. There's certainly plenty to do, but it helps that managers are supportive and don't micro-manage. I also like that the company is flexible on working from home, so long as quality work gets done.

Cons

Because we're a fast-growing company, leaders sometimes forget to cascade information down. But this is already changing with regular town hall meetings and a new performance management system.

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Universal Robots Response
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Thank you for taking the time to provide thoughtful feedback about our communications. We are glad to see that you already feel improvements in this area. Our leadership team is always open to input from colleagues - including ways we can improve.

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